Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-02

The amendment was lost, however, by a
vo of is ayes to 22 noes. 1t was q
signal victory for the miners, and Wal.
rath, who few moments before was in
an excited condition of mind, became
placid and self.contained.
The amendment offered by White,
that no dam erected in such manner as
to endanger or materially affect the
navigabllity OF any navigable st. cam OF
the State. was accepted by the friends
of the bill. A dispute arose as to agree
ing upon an amendment to he offered
by Clunie, when it was decided to refer
the bill to committee of four, including
Caminetti for the miners, and Chandler
for the valley men, or farmers.
This being done, other bills were con.
sidered, and Senator Brceland's BILL
appropiiating $4,000 to prevent the
introduction of infectious disease, was
passed. Boggs' bill, appropriating $780,.
900 for the purchase of jute machinery
and the manufacture of jute goods at
San Quentin was passed. The Appro.
priatlon bill was received from the
Assembly and referred to the Finance
Committee. The committee appointed
to consider the Debris Dam bill reporte d
it back, and the bill was ordered en-.
crossed and read third time. Tnis
closed the business for the night and
Walrath feels happy.
The Smith investigation has drawn to
a close. What the result OF the commit
tee will be is only conjecture. 1t is said
on all sides that, whatever the report
may be, some good will come out of it.
1t has been the means so far of puttng &
a stop to tine members of the Legislature
going around the lobby and doing. as is
generally termed here, their own broker
age business openly.
The Los Angeles delegation is still
here and attending to the bill for the
benefit of cities Of 10, 600 population and
over. They are very anxious to get
through with their business and return to
their home. In conversation with Mr..
Cobn yesterday, he said lie was very
tired of Sacramento.
A resolution offered by Shanahan ia
the Assembly yesterday morning has ere.
ated quite n st in political circles. The
resolution is very elaborate, and in the
preamble arraigns the management OF the
State prisons III continuing, in spite OF
the Constitution, to farm out the labor
Of the prisoners to contractors who man.
ufacture furniture and doors and sashes,
and continues as follows And,
whereas, there are no obtainable
itemized expenditures of the
Board of Directors, though they
receive an average of 500 or upward per
month for personal expenses, and draw
the same from the warden of the prison;
and, whereas, one of the Prison Diree-
tors has procured his election to the Sen
ate, and is very actively interested in
legislation relating to the prisons: and
another of the Prison Directors is Secre-
tary of State and q member of the State
Board of Examiners at the same time,
and another of the Prison Directors is
St cretary of Penologicl Il Commission,
receiving Il salary therefor; and, where
1s, Prison Directors have been engaged
with prison contractors actively lobby
ing during the present session of the
Legislature in reference to proposed leg
islation affecting tie prison; and. where.
as, at meeting at San Quentin of the
Prison Directors, during the year 1886,
one of the Directors protested against
the continued practice of approving
without examination accounts aggregat-
ing from $4,000 to $4,000 per quarter.
Therefore, be it resolved by this Assem-.
bly, that spccial committee of five be
at once appointed by the Speaker to in.
vestigate the present State Prison man
agement and report to this Assembly in
regard to the same before its final ad.
iournment; that said committee be en-
powered to administer oaths, subpoena
all necessary witnesses and to compel
the submission of all necessary papers to
said committee"
The Constitutional amendment intro.
duced by Knox, and of which Senator
White is virtually the father, will be
introduced in the Senate tomorrow,
with few slight amendments.
The Appropriation bill will possibly be
taken up out of its order in the Senate
tomorrow and amended very materially.
There are a large number of items that
the Senate will refuse to concur in.
The past week has been very re.
markable one here, every Senator al.
most is complaining of malaria, and
bottle of cough medicine or a box of
quinine pills can be found on every desk
in the Senate chamber. Senator JoneN
has taken upon himself to furnish all the
medicine gratis. While DR.. Briceland
is the physician there is a chance that
they may all pull through safely.
Wants" Personals" and other adver-